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Defense Against Dishonest Charts(flowingdata.com)
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by bldavies 3y ago
3B1B is incredible. I loved his video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k ) using Fourier series to make epicycle animations. I worked through the details to make my own: https://bldavies.com/blog&#x
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Euclidean Fairness and Efficiency(doi.org)
1 points by bldavies 3y ago|0 comments
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Comparing equal- and value-weighted portfolios(bldavies.com)
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The Option Value of Waiting(bldavies.com)
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Stroads are ugly, expensive, and dangerous(youtube.com)
47 points by bldavies 3y ago|1 comments
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Tyler Cowen calls for models of the AI apocalypse(bldavies.com)
3 points by bldavies 3y ago|1 comments
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Marginal Revolution Metadata(bldavies.com)
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Making Normal Conversations Better(sashachapin.substack.com)
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You can't reach the brain through the ears(experimentalhistory.substack.com)
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Show HN: Stravadata, an R package for accessing Strava activity data(github.com)
1 points by bldavies 4y ago|0 comments
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Running fast races when you're unsure how hard they'll be(bldavies.com)
4 points by bldavies 4y ago|0 comments
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Homophily and the Strength of Moderate Ties(bldavies.com)
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If truth doesn't matter, it's better to be an ideologue with ideological friends(bldavies.com)
2 points by bldavies 4y ago|1 comments
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Snowball sampling bias in program evaluation(bldavies.com)
1 points by bldavies 5y ago|0 comments
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Models of human predictions can out-perform the humans those models are based on(bldavies.com)
1 points by bldavies 5y ago|0 comments
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Auctioning Vaccines(bldavies.com)
2 points by bldavies 6y ago|0 comments
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Winning strategies for white elephant gift exchanges(bldavies.com)
2 points by bldavies 6y ago|0 comments
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Social learning and peer selection lead to polarized beliefs(bldavies.com)
2 points by bldavies 6y ago|0 comments
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by bldavies 6y ago
For those interested, I explain some of the math involved in computing epicycles from sample data here: http://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/
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by bldavies 6y ago
Try this: https://obfuscator.albertnis.com
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Comparing Greedy Pig strategies(bldavies.com)
2 points by bldavies 6y ago|0 comments
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by bldavies 6y ago
Somewhat related/shameless self-plug: I created an R package [1] that provides data on travel times between NYC subway stops. These data can be used to, e.g., visualise and analyse the subway network [2]. [1]: https://github